This interdisciplinary course is designed to introduce women's studies students to some of the major debates and intellectual conversations in the field of feminist theory. The seminar is organized around a set of texts that are engaged with questions about race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, (trans)nationalism or globalization, with an acute attention to the historical construction of their ideologies and practices, and to their relevance to individual and collective experience.

Note: Students who do not have the enforced prereq for this class but have taken a Women's Studies class, may email the department (wsp.advising@umich.edu) to request for permission to enroll. When emailing, please include the name of the Women's Studies course you have taken.

Syllabi are available to current LSA students. IMPORTANT: These syllabi are provided to give students a general idea about the courses, as offered by LSA departments and programs in prior academic terms. The syllabi do not necessarily reflect the assignments, sequence of course materials, and/or course expectations that the faculty and departments/programs have for these same courses in the current and/or future terms.